Planning and Environment Linkages Program: A Guide to Measuring Progress in Linking Transportation Planning and Environmental Analysis

Transportation agencies use a variety of metrics to document progress toward achieving specific goals and objectives. This guide, developed by Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) program, is intended to help State Departments of Transportation (DOTs), metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), and local transportation agencies develop individual programs to measure success toward linking transportation planning and environmental analysis. This guide provides a framework for establishing measures that transportation agencies can utilize to develop their own measurement programs. To illustrate implementation of the framework, it provides an overall goal of linking transportation planning and environmental analysis, four sample objectives, and an array of example metrics to track progress toward achieving these goals and objectives.

• Record URL:
  http://environment.fhwa.dot.gov/integ/meas_progress.pdf
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/9007
• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Planning, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Project Development and Environmental Review, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Volpe National Transportation Systems Center

  Cambridge, MA  United States  02142
• Authors:
  • Culp, Michael
  • Reed, Sharlene
  • Biton, Anna
  • Barberio, Gina
  • Barolsky, Rachael
  • Filosa, Gina
• Publication Date: 2009-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 31p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Environmental impact analysis; Handbooks; Metrics (Quantitative assessment); Metropolitan planning organizations; State departments of transportation; Transportation departments; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I15: Environment; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01154220
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 12 2010 4:26PM